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THE ARKOT REPUBLICAN. SEVENTH YEAR. PIKEXIX, AMZOXA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 27, 1896. VOL. VII. NO. 8. A4AA44Aai9MHlCMSII8MltMI9l !( m m w m w m nr m hi When you can spend undershirts and drawers Why Suffer 1 XX mm a huh m. i i ins ling A FINE BALBRIGGAN Undershirt and Draver for X and a fall line of other It lower than ever before.' g XX SHOE AND CLOTHING STORE Kemember uur Jbree Labor ? I I l II I i 1 1 DEATH DEALING CYCLONE Awful Devastation in the East. Once Prosperous Homes Now Destroyed. The Merciless Cyclones Leave Death and Destruction In . Its Path. fc OXFORD, Mich., May 26 From reports that continue to come in from adjacent points the full force of the fierce wind that swept this part of Oakland county is beginning to be appreciated. Everywhere is devastation. Villages that were yesterday the homes of contented citizens are today desolate. (Maimed and bruised fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters mourn for those who met death in the twisting grinding, resistless wind. The death roll in this vicinity may run up to the hundred mark. At Oak-wood, a hamlet fifty miles north of Oxford, having a papulation of about 200, not a house was left standing. The path of the storm was between one-half and three-quarters of a mile wide. It extended in nearly a straight course eastward for over thirty miles. DETROIT, (May 26. The total deaths resulting from last night's cyclone in Michigan reached thirty-eight this afternoon, with reports from some remote districts yet to come. Several of the injured cannot recover. MILWAUKEE, May 26. Later reports from North McGregor, Iowa, relative to the terrible havoc caused by the storm and flood of Sunday night, show the destruction of vast interests of the St. Paul road at that point, as well aa of the little town, are about complete. The total damage to the railroad property alone is estimated at $125,000. The loss of life will probably be found nearer twenty than ten. RESULT AT CAIRO. Hurricane and Cloudburst Strike That City. BOLE3BORO, 111., May 26. Caim Illinois, has suffered very greatly from a hurricane and cloudburst. Tele graph wires are down in every direc tion. The steamer Katanic, used as a ferry boat, was caught at the mouth of the Ohio river in a storm at 8:30 o'clock this morning and capsized. The pas sengers were all drowned.- Of the crew only the captain, engineer and (3 f 9S eCOt f t lt SO m m m w m m w w m 25 cents and get nice XX to make you comfortable. CENTS light goods at prices t umce Mill ill ill ill l U ; ,. i v ....j t ! clerk are known to be saved. Among- the lost is Captain Rltterhouse, Super- intendent of the Cairo City Ferry com- j The storm struck at 8:30 this even-! ing. There was a terrific wind and i rain. The opera house and Union depot were unroofed, but no houses were j destroyed or lives lost in the city. At ' Birds Point, Missouri, opposite this I city, the church and ten other build- mgs were moved from their founda-1 tions. Trees were blown across the ! tracks and the running of trains was interfered with. CUBAN TOBACCO. WASHINGTON, May 26. The state iT,Qi-tmoTit nfAniai'to inhmij tiiaf i all contracts for Cuban leaf tobacco WW : XX XX : ft 1 i ; entered into before publication of theiw?'cn. l"? PP11S .e grammnr order of CaptainGeneral Weyler pro hibiting its exportation, will be spected. Citizens of the United States proving themselves bona fide owners of such tobacco -nrior to the uromulsa- tion of the order will be permitted to export the same as heretofore. PUBLIC (LANDS BILL. iWASHINGTOiN, May 26. The house committee on public lands today voted to reconsider its recent action on the bill for the segregation of the mineral lands of California. The committee had agreed to the senate amendment ! which extends the provisions of the bill to Oregon, but today decided to report to the house a disagreement and ask for a conference BIG FIRE. iDESERONTO, Ont., May 26 Yesterday afternoon a fire broke out on the tie dock of the Rathburn company and swept away almost the entire east ern portion of town. About 9 o'clock a terrific downpour of rain helped to extinguish the flames. About seventy families are homeless. The loss will aggregate over $300,000. NAVY OFFICER PROMOTED. WASHINGTON, May 26 The president today sent to the senate the following nomination: Lieutenant Samuel O. Lemely of the United States navy, to be judge advocate general of the navy, with the rank of captain. A MOTHER'S DEED. BULtUiN, mo., May 26. Mrs. Mark i Frost, wife of a prominent farmer residing at Cleveland, near here, drowned her two children and herself last evening. No cause for the deed is known. CHOLERA RIOTS. -LONDON, May 26. The Evening News publishes dispatches from Cairo saying serious cholera riots have occurred there. An American missionary and his wife were injured. EDUCATIONAL PHtENIX Closing of the Scholastic Term. ! Commencement Exercise To-nieht.The Advancement of the Schools During the Year Just Closed- 'With the commencement exercises thi3 evening of the Union high school the most successful year of school work 4 : ever Known in irnoemx is urougui hi ib close. The grammar school depart-f T ! ment closed ' on last Friday. The Union high ; school on Monday and. Tuesday of this week holding "institute" sessions. In the grammar school department twenty teachers were employed, four males and sixteen females. In the Union high school four male teachers were employed. The city superintendent of schools. Professor W. B. Creager, '! is employed Jointly, by the two boards J j of . 'trustees aHd has charge of both XX ' Schools--: Ji In the high school Principal H. H. grown has during the year instructed XX I classes in literature, rhetoric, gram-! mar, trigonometry, geometry, advanced J: algebra, these studies being -divided XX 1 between the two terms into which the : year is divided. Prores3or ;ount wa3 instructor in botany, physics, physiology, physical geography, beginning -algebra, arith Professor Randal in political j metic; economy and Latin; Professor Ander son in bookkeeping, commercial law, arithmetic, penmanship, stenography, typewriting and drawing. In the institute work of the past two days each pupil in the various classes had assigned to him or her a topic for discussion, on which all the important points were to be given close consideration, and presented in what tire student considered the best manner. ilH,"58,!" u?i "s:uiu .n. : ! i ( j t :t ir lueresuutj oy use oi apparatus, and drawings. Literature by selec-; : tions from tlts-tfiithors discussed, etc, i 'Parents al-d those interested in ed- lucation who have been in attendance have been surprised and highly pleased with the work presented by the stu- i dents, and the evidences of the thor- b' k tfl b this' f . . t- ela B i e" " 5 cla.v was .to,. ' ed a year ago there were many who ; it f. said that it was impracticable too extensive, they averred, handled by the force of Instructors provided. To such objectors the public exercises of this week have been an object lesson in educational possibilities.At the commencement this evening In the opera house there will be but ui uie uptjitt uuuse mere win ue um : two graduates, Miss Isoline Coombs ! and John Merriam, the small class and lengthening of the course of study. ' Next year, however, a large clas3 is expected to be graduated. " """'"s ye n0' w,m nave.,a PUiDllc graauauon. re-!i,ca'' "I"""""' " l1'1- n 6n.e stage at ine completion oi we " i ovuw. u. lowing namea persons compose named the class graduates: Nellie Battin, Ada iBoyd, Normad Damron, Etta Dawson, Estella Davenport, Janie Irvine, Sara Jacobs, Beatrice Kincaid, May Maddox, Reba Hey-man, Ethel La Chance, Helen Marshall, John Carmody, Elmo Collins, Gay Goodin, Sell Ooodin, Ernest Graf, Spencer McKern, Alex Pendleton, Charles Rebstock, Leo Rosenburg, ifwrence oergeani, i-Tan wooa, i timer ineiiiii, iLiugar xiau. In the grammar school department, work of the most thorough kind has been required and a high standard for promotion maintained, so that next year even better work than has been done this year may be expected. Many pupils whose standing was good in every study except possibly one, will be held to answer for the one doubtful branch next year when the school opens before they will be permitted to pass into a higher grade. This requirement of examination before being promoted in such studies as they are backward in, has caused some pretty severe, yet unjust, comment on the superintendent, but Is made an absolute requirement in all of the fundamental studies, and will have 'free alcohol clause of the existing tar-much to do with raising the standing 1 iff law. (No action was taken. The of our city schools and if persisted in ' senate passed a general deficiency ap-will make Phoenix schools second to ! propriatinn bill today. The bill car-none. ! ries $10,000,000. There can be no doubt in anybody's j mind who is familiar with the schoolsof i JEWELRY THIEF. Phoenix that during the scholastic year j have been conducted with some regard for system something that was heretofore lacking. Superintend?nt Creager was unjustly criticised wii.:; h? ;i i. took charge of the schools or Pliii '-. by not following the established cus tom of his predecessors in leaving th-i , teachers have absolute control of the schools without the necessity of con suiting the superintendent. : ate has defeated the motion to table ! allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is Profest,or Creager changed the order the amendment to the filled cheese bill, ; the best remedy for diarrhoea. Twenty-of things when he took hold and every adding 75 cuts to the tax on Iber. five cents a bottle. one is now willing to admit -tliat the results have been very bfrgflflal. ! which he could hive slighted, but inl hi3 zeal for advancing the condition of ' the schools no obstacle did he leave unsurmunted. Heretofore the scuools . werj run more like an aggregation of stools; that is, the fourth grade in the West End had a different course of study from the fourth grades in the East End school. Superintendent Creager made the line of work alike in the same grades of the different schools- He also did something that heretofore never had been done, which was that he insisted on all the examination questions being submitted to him before given to the various classes. The final examinations were prepared by himself.' The examinations after being graded by the teachers were submitted for his personal inspection and if he - found that a pupil had been graded too high or too low he corrected according to his judgment. All this entailed a good deal of work, but Superintendent Creager was equal to the emergency, and his methods were warmly approved by the teachers. The citizens of Phoenix have every reason to be proud of the work of the schools this term and they can without boast say that our institutions of learning are second to ncne in the United States. MINISTER UNDER SUSPICION. Mysterious Disappearance of a Young Woman. OMAHA, Neb., May 26. Miss Henrietta Cla'wson, the young woman whose disappearance from Salt Lake has led to suspicions against Rev. Francis Hermans of that city, once lived in Omaha. S'he came here from Denmark nine years ago, having no rel atives m the country. At the solicita- "ons0'!1" Anderson, who had gone there. Miss Anderson returned three years ago. '.Miss Clawson remained. After Rev; Francis Hermans and his wife moved to Salt Lake City her letters frequently contained allusions to them. During the latter part of 'last summer letters from Miss Clawson sud denly ceased without any explanation As a last effort to reach Miss Clawson, during the winter Miss lAndersoa I j.. i j.-, j .... wiuic ucr a iei-t;r auuieaseu ill care- vl the Bev. Francis Hermans, but no M..iwera K1.l;ea- A aispatch from AKOoaa. , - - p y came VERY SUSPICIONS. Girl's Mysterious Disappearance Laid to a Minister. SALT LAKE, May 26. The police department has been actively making investigation in the basement of the O.n. A ; t n K I" .. V . 1 1 t?TJ i i W riur traces of the missing girl. Miss Clausen. and in the ashes in the grate were found two false teeth. A pair of overalls were also dug up in the basement of the church. The overalls were stained with blood. On the day a fire was built in the furnace the wastor of the church was seen going into the :u , j, . Llih .f.nI'!Pk AT h'8 be-jl V ';luZ wT k JT. "JVi whereabut8 of 0,9 misslnS preacher. HOT AT 'iFRISCO. People On the Coast Affected With the Heat. SAN FRANCISCO, May 26. The bot spell of the last two days is without precedent for the month of May in this state. The temperature has risen m the past twenty-four hours ten degrees along the central coast of California. The maximum temperature of 102 degrees occurred at Los Angeles; 10 8 at Yuma, 106 at Phoenix. The temperature for San Francisco is 23 degrees above normal. Conditions are favorable to a continuance of the warm weatfher. NOTORIOUS FORGER. DENVER, May 26 The police have been informed of the arrest in Detroit of Alfred G. Heighton, the notorious forger, who was pardoned from, the Colorado penitentiary by Governor Waite. The most remarkable of his forgeries was committed in Portland, Ore.,Jn 1894, when he hired a special Northern Pacific train to take him to St. Paul, paying for it with a forged check. FREE ALCOHOL. WASHINGTON, May 26. The bouse today went into a committee of the : whole to consider the bill to repeal the and William Turner accused of the theft of the Borden jewels, will isj handed over to the New York authori - ties tomorrow with the recovered lia- monds. BEER TAX. i ! -WASHINGTON , May 26. The sen - I A . . ' Several Iowa Towns De- vastated. Death and Destruction in thg Storm's Path. Few Places Are Swept Off the Face of the Earth Loss-. Unknown. DES MOINES, May 26. Jasper antf Polk counties, which were swept by a disastrous cyclone -last Sunday,to-day, showed the terrible extent of the disaster. The storm which at first gave promise of nothing more serious than a heavy rain, soon developed into a tornado, rivaling in force and o$-structiveness the recent tornadoes which devastated Kansas and Texas. Six towns were partially destroyed; they are Bondurant, Valeria, Minga, Ankeny, Polk City and Slater. AH wires are down in the districts swept by the storms and communication is most difficult. The first intelligence of the storm reached this city from Berwick. The railroad telegrap'j, operators' bulletin stated that Valeria ' and Bondurant had been almost completely destroyed. The train due hera from the north this morning has not yet arrived and till it does, no details of the frightful havoc of the storm fcanv be secured. The first fatality occurred two mile east of Bondurant The house of Robt. Bailey, occupied by himself, wife an seven children, was demolished. Mrs. Bailey and three children were killei outright. iFrom this point the storm followed the Great Western road to a. point above Ira in Marshall county, where the last traces of it are found. . The town of Santiago wa wrecked andi a family named Boltenbaugh, consist-ins of father, mother and one child,, were killed. . . llLa "ciL. UJi" ws swePl almost . . 'fe ot.th Vih- named Phelan and his four chiMMv . ... , .-. . . . , says that a courier reports that be- t?een Valeria pnd'ira the loss of Ufa and property ia great and that at least nine persons vere tilled. It im--i possible as yc-t to get more details frost ? tnere. The . best information is that-i the killed number just twenty although this ; may , be slightly increased by ' deaths, among" the' injured. A train with physicians left this city this morning over the Great Western, following Hie construction of the train, but on accaunt of the track damage, it has not yet reached Bondurant. At Polk City only a slight damage) is done and no one injured. Six miles east of Ankeney buildings- wered-S-molished and everything levelled to the ground, bat slight damage was done in the town. At Bondurant farn houses and buildings were wrecked and much stock killed. . No persona were; seriously injured. ATTACKING -CHRISTIANS. Turkish Soldiers Are Tricks. at Their OI ATHENS, IMay 26.-AdviS33- fron the island of Crete state that the Turkish soldiers at Ketiiao are continuing, the attack upon Christians, who hava barricaded themselves in their houses. Telegraphic eommunica-ion, except messages to and from foreign consuls-, have been prohibited by the Turkish authorities. A HORSeS iKICK. Results Fatally to 'Farmer. Merced iMEEUSEiD, Cal., May 26. G. B. Palmer, a farmer living near Atwater, thin county, walked into his stabla Sunday night and slapped his horse oa the back. The horse kicked him, one hK(f landing squarely on the chest anl the other on the ear. Palmer died yesterday after suffering untold agonies for many hours. - A MISSING MAN. (NEW YORK, May 26. Hy Davis of Elkir.s of West Virginia, son of the former United States Senator Davis, took passage for Delagoa bay, South Africa, on the British steamerMonk-seat-on, which reached this port today. On the night of April 24 Davis disappeared. He is supposed to have fallen overboard. THAT CONFSiRitlNCE. iPITTSBURG, May 26. Senator Quay will say nothing of the result of his visit with McKinley, but it is reported that the outcome is that Quay will bo National chairman. Morton vice- president, and Piatt will control the 1 Pol;t!cs of New York state, ' . HR OVER -.FIFTY YEARS iMVs. Wins!ow's Soothing Syrnp has i been used for children teething.- It 1 soothes the child, softens the gums.

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THE ARKOT REPUBLICAN. SEVENTH YEAR. PIKEXIX, AMZOXA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 27, 1896. VOL. VII. NO. 8. A4AA44Aai9MHlCMSII8MltMI9l !( m m w m w m nr m hi When you can spend undershirts and drawers Why Suffer 1 XX mm a huh m. i i ins ling A FINE BALBRIGGAN Undershirt and Draver for X and a fall line of other It lower than ever before.' g XX SHOE AND CLOTHING STORE Kemember uur Jbree Labor ? I I l II I i 1 1 DEATH DEALING CYCLONE Awful Devastation in the East. Once Prosperous Homes Now Destroyed. The Merciless Cyclones Leave Death and Destruction In . Its Path. fc OXFORD, Mich., May 26 From reports that continue to come in from adjacent points the full force of the fierce wind that swept this part of Oakland county is beginning to be appreciated. Everywhere is devastation. Villages that were yesterday the homes of contented citizens are today desolate. (Maimed and bruised fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters mourn for those who met death in the twisting grinding, resistless wind. The death roll in this vicinity may run up to the hundred mark. At Oak-wood, a hamlet fifty miles north of Oxford, having a papulation of about 200, not a house was left standing. The path of the storm was between one-half and three-quarters of a mile wide. It extended in nearly a straight course eastward for over thirty miles. DETROIT, (May 26. The total deaths resulting from last night's cyclone in Michigan reached thirty-eight this afternoon, with reports from some remote districts yet to come. Several of the injured cannot recover. MILWAUKEE, May 26. Later reports from North McGregor, Iowa, relative to the terrible havoc caused by the storm and flood of Sunday night, show the destruction of vast interests of the St. Paul road at that point, as well aa of the little town, are about complete. The total damage to the railroad property alone is estimated at $125,000. The loss of life will probably be found nearer twenty than ten. RESULT AT CAIRO. Hurricane and Cloudburst Strike That City. BOLE3BORO, 111., May 26. Caim Illinois, has suffered very greatly from a hurricane and cloudburst. Tele graph wires are down in every direc tion. The steamer Katanic, used as a ferry boat, was caught at the mouth of the Ohio river in a storm at 8:30 o'clock this morning and capsized. The pas sengers were all drowned.- Of the crew only the captain, engineer and (3 f 9S eCOt f t lt SO m m m w m m w w m 25 cents and get nice XX to make you comfortable. CENTS light goods at prices t umce Mill ill ill ill l U ; ,. i v ....j t ! clerk are known to be saved. Among- the lost is Captain Rltterhouse, Super- intendent of the Cairo City Ferry com- j The storm struck at 8:30 this even-! ing. There was a terrific wind and i rain. The opera house and Union depot were unroofed, but no houses were j destroyed or lives lost in the city. At ' Birds Point, Missouri, opposite this I city, the church and ten other build- mgs were moved from their founda-1 tions. Trees were blown across the ! tracks and the running of trains was interfered with. CUBAN TOBACCO. WASHINGTON, May 26. The state iT,Qi-tmoTit nfAniai'to inhmij tiiaf i all contracts for Cuban leaf tobacco WW : XX XX : ft 1 i ; entered into before publication of theiw?'cn. l"? PP11S .e grammnr order of CaptainGeneral Weyler pro hibiting its exportation, will be spected. Citizens of the United States proving themselves bona fide owners of such tobacco -nrior to the uromulsa- tion of the order will be permitted to export the same as heretofore. PUBLIC (LANDS BILL. iWASHINGTOiN, May 26. The house committee on public lands today voted to reconsider its recent action on the bill for the segregation of the mineral lands of California. The committee had agreed to the senate amendment ! which extends the provisions of the bill to Oregon, but today decided to report to the house a disagreement and ask for a conference BIG FIRE. iDESERONTO, Ont., May 26 Yesterday afternoon a fire broke out on the tie dock of the Rathburn company and swept away almost the entire east ern portion of town. About 9 o'clock a terrific downpour of rain helped to extinguish the flames. About seventy families are homeless. The loss will aggregate over $300,000. NAVY OFFICER PROMOTED. WASHINGTON, May 26 The president today sent to the senate the following nomination: Lieutenant Samuel O. Lemely of the United States navy, to be judge advocate general of the navy, with the rank of captain. A MOTHER'S DEED. BULtUiN, mo., May 26. Mrs. Mark i Frost, wife of a prominent farmer residing at Cleveland, near here, drowned her two children and herself last evening. No cause for the deed is known. CHOLERA RIOTS. -LONDON, May 26. The Evening News publishes dispatches from Cairo saying serious cholera riots have occurred there. An American missionary and his wife were injured. EDUCATIONAL PHtENIX Closing of the Scholastic Term. ! Commencement Exercise To-nieht.The Advancement of the Schools During the Year Just Closed- 'With the commencement exercises thi3 evening of the Union high school the most successful year of school work 4 : ever Known in irnoemx is urougui hi ib close. The grammar school depart-f T ! ment closed ' on last Friday. The Union high ; school on Monday and. Tuesday of this week holding "institute" sessions. In the grammar school department twenty teachers were employed, four males and sixteen females. In the Union high school four male teachers were employed. The city superintendent of schools. Professor W. B. Creager, '! is employed Jointly, by the two boards J j of . 'trustees aHd has charge of both XX ' Schools--: Ji In the high school Principal H. H. grown has during the year instructed XX I classes in literature, rhetoric, gram-! mar, trigonometry, geometry, advanced J: algebra, these studies being -divided XX 1 between the two terms into which the : year is divided. Prores3or ;ount wa3 instructor in botany, physics, physiology, physical geography, beginning -algebra, arith Professor Randal in political j metic; economy and Latin; Professor Ander son in bookkeeping, commercial law, arithmetic, penmanship, stenography, typewriting and drawing. In the institute work of the past two days each pupil in the various classes had assigned to him or her a topic for discussion, on which all the important points were to be given close consideration, and presented in what tire student considered the best manner. ilH,"58,!" u?i "s:uiu .n. : ! i ( j t :t ir lueresuutj oy use oi apparatus, and drawings. Literature by selec-; : tions from tlts-tfiithors discussed, etc, i 'Parents al-d those interested in ed- lucation who have been in attendance have been surprised and highly pleased with the work presented by the stu- i dents, and the evidences of the thor- b' k tfl b this' f . . t- ela B i e" " 5 cla.v was .to,. ' ed a year ago there were many who ; it f. said that it was impracticable too extensive, they averred, handled by the force of Instructors provided. To such objectors the public exercises of this week have been an object lesson in educational possibilities.At the commencement this evening In the opera house there will be but ui uie uptjitt uuuse mere win ue um : two graduates, Miss Isoline Coombs ! and John Merriam, the small class and lengthening of the course of study. ' Next year, however, a large clas3 is expected to be graduated. " """'"s ye n0' w,m nave.,a PUiDllc graauauon. re-!i,ca'' "I"""""' " l1'1- n 6n.e stage at ine completion oi we " i ovuw. u. lowing namea persons compose named the class graduates: Nellie Battin, Ada iBoyd, Normad Damron, Etta Dawson, Estella Davenport, Janie Irvine, Sara Jacobs, Beatrice Kincaid, May Maddox, Reba Hey-man, Ethel La Chance, Helen Marshall, John Carmody, Elmo Collins, Gay Goodin, Sell Ooodin, Ernest Graf, Spencer McKern, Alex Pendleton, Charles Rebstock, Leo Rosenburg, ifwrence oergeani, i-Tan wooa, i timer ineiiiii, iLiugar xiau. In the grammar school department, work of the most thorough kind has been required and a high standard for promotion maintained, so that next year even better work than has been done this year may be expected. Many pupils whose standing was good in every study except possibly one, will be held to answer for the one doubtful branch next year when the school opens before they will be permitted to pass into a higher grade. This requirement of examination before being promoted in such studies as they are backward in, has caused some pretty severe, yet unjust, comment on the superintendent, but Is made an absolute requirement in all of the fundamental studies, and will have 'free alcohol clause of the existing tar-much to do with raising the standing 1 iff law. (No action was taken. The of our city schools and if persisted in ' senate passed a general deficiency ap-will make Phoenix schools second to ! propriatinn bill today. The bill car-none. ! ries $10,000,000. There can be no doubt in anybody's j mind who is familiar with the schoolsof i JEWELRY THIEF. Phoenix that during the scholastic year j have been conducted with some regard for system something that was heretofore lacking. Superintend?nt Creager was unjustly criticised wii.:; h? ;i i. took charge of the schools or Pliii '-. by not following the established cus tom of his predecessors in leaving th-i , teachers have absolute control of the schools without the necessity of con suiting the superintendent. : ate has defeated the motion to table ! allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is Profest,or Creager changed the order the amendment to the filled cheese bill, ; the best remedy for diarrhoea. Twenty-of things when he took hold and every adding 75 cuts to the tax on Iber. five cents a bottle. one is now willing to admit -tliat the results have been very bfrgflflal. ! which he could hive slighted, but inl hi3 zeal for advancing the condition of ' the schools no obstacle did he leave unsurmunted. Heretofore the scuools . werj run more like an aggregation of stools; that is, the fourth grade in the West End had a different course of study from the fourth grades in the East End school. Superintendent Creager made the line of work alike in the same grades of the different schools- He also did something that heretofore never had been done, which was that he insisted on all the examination questions being submitted to him before given to the various classes. The final examinations were prepared by himself.' The examinations after being graded by the teachers were submitted for his personal inspection and if he - found that a pupil had been graded too high or too low he corrected according to his judgment. All this entailed a good deal of work, but Superintendent Creager was equal to the emergency, and his methods were warmly approved by the teachers. The citizens of Phoenix have every reason to be proud of the work of the schools this term and they can without boast say that our institutions of learning are second to ncne in the United States. MINISTER UNDER SUSPICION. Mysterious Disappearance of a Young Woman. OMAHA, Neb., May 26. Miss Henrietta Cla'wson, the young woman whose disappearance from Salt Lake has led to suspicions against Rev. Francis Hermans of that city, once lived in Omaha. S'he came here from Denmark nine years ago, having no rel atives m the country. At the solicita- "ons0'!1" Anderson, who had gone there. Miss Anderson returned three years ago. '.Miss Clawson remained. After Rev; Francis Hermans and his wife moved to Salt Lake City her letters frequently contained allusions to them. During the latter part of 'last summer letters from Miss Clawson sud denly ceased without any explanation As a last effort to reach Miss Clawson, during the winter Miss lAndersoa I j.. i j.-, j .... wiuic ucr a iei-t;r auuieaseu ill care- vl the Bev. Francis Hermans, but no M..iwera K1.l;ea- A aispatch from AKOoaa. , - - p y came VERY SUSPICIONS. Girl's Mysterious Disappearance Laid to a Minister. SALT LAKE, May 26. The police department has been actively making investigation in the basement of the O.n. A ; t n K I" .. V . 1 1 t?TJ i i W riur traces of the missing girl. Miss Clausen. and in the ashes in the grate were found two false teeth. A pair of overalls were also dug up in the basement of the church. The overalls were stained with blood. On the day a fire was built in the furnace the wastor of the church was seen going into the :u , j, . Llih .f.nI'!Pk AT h'8 be-jl V ';luZ wT k JT. "JVi whereabut8 of 0,9 misslnS preacher. HOT AT 'iFRISCO. People On the Coast Affected With the Heat. SAN FRANCISCO, May 26. The bot spell of the last two days is without precedent for the month of May in this state. The temperature has risen m the past twenty-four hours ten degrees along the central coast of California. The maximum temperature of 102 degrees occurred at Los Angeles; 10 8 at Yuma, 106 at Phoenix. The temperature for San Francisco is 23 degrees above normal. Conditions are favorable to a continuance of the warm weatfher. NOTORIOUS FORGER. DENVER, May 26 The police have been informed of the arrest in Detroit of Alfred G. Heighton, the notorious forger, who was pardoned from, the Colorado penitentiary by Governor Waite. The most remarkable of his forgeries was committed in Portland, Ore.,Jn 1894, when he hired a special Northern Pacific train to take him to St. Paul, paying for it with a forged check. FREE ALCOHOL. WASHINGTON, May 26. The bouse today went into a committee of the : whole to consider the bill to repeal the and William Turner accused of the theft of the Borden jewels, will isj handed over to the New York authori - ties tomorrow with the recovered lia- monds. BEER TAX. i ! -WASHINGTON , May 26. The sen - I A . . ' Several Iowa Towns De- vastated. Death and Destruction in thg Storm's Path. Few Places Are Swept Off the Face of the Earth Loss-. Unknown. DES MOINES, May 26. Jasper antf Polk counties, which were swept by a disastrous cyclone -last Sunday,to-day, showed the terrible extent of the disaster. The storm which at first gave promise of nothing more serious than a heavy rain, soon developed into a tornado, rivaling in force and o$-structiveness the recent tornadoes which devastated Kansas and Texas. Six towns were partially destroyed; they are Bondurant, Valeria, Minga, Ankeny, Polk City and Slater. AH wires are down in the districts swept by the storms and communication is most difficult. The first intelligence of the storm reached this city from Berwick. The railroad telegrap'j, operators' bulletin stated that Valeria ' and Bondurant had been almost completely destroyed. The train due hera from the north this morning has not yet arrived and till it does, no details of the frightful havoc of the storm fcanv be secured. The first fatality occurred two mile east of Bondurant The house of Robt. Bailey, occupied by himself, wife an seven children, was demolished. Mrs. Bailey and three children were killei outright. iFrom this point the storm followed the Great Western road to a. point above Ira in Marshall county, where the last traces of it are found. . The town of Santiago wa wrecked andi a family named Boltenbaugh, consist-ins of father, mother and one child,, were killed. . . llLa "ciL. UJi" ws swePl almost . . 'fe ot.th Vih- named Phelan and his four chiMMv . ... , .-. . . . , says that a courier reports that be- t?een Valeria pnd'ira the loss of Ufa and property ia great and that at least nine persons vere tilled. It im--i possible as yc-t to get more details frost ? tnere. The . best information is that-i the killed number just twenty although this ; may , be slightly increased by ' deaths, among" the' injured. A train with physicians left this city this morning over the Great Western, following Hie construction of the train, but on accaunt of the track damage, it has not yet reached Bondurant. At Polk City only a slight damage) is done and no one injured. Six miles east of Ankeney buildings- wered-S-molished and everything levelled to the ground, bat slight damage was done in the town. At Bondurant farn houses and buildings were wrecked and much stock killed. . No persona were; seriously injured. ATTACKING -CHRISTIANS. Turkish Soldiers Are Tricks. at Their OI ATHENS, IMay 26.-AdviS33- fron the island of Crete state that the Turkish soldiers at Ketiiao are continuing, the attack upon Christians, who hava barricaded themselves in their houses. Telegraphic eommunica-ion, except messages to and from foreign consuls-, have been prohibited by the Turkish authorities. A HORSeS iKICK. Results Fatally to 'Farmer. Merced iMEEUSEiD, Cal., May 26. G. B. Palmer, a farmer living near Atwater, thin county, walked into his stabla Sunday night and slapped his horse oa the back. The horse kicked him, one hK(f landing squarely on the chest anl the other on the ear. Palmer died yesterday after suffering untold agonies for many hours. - A MISSING MAN. (NEW YORK, May 26. Hy Davis of Elkir.s of West Virginia, son of the former United States Senator Davis, took passage for Delagoa bay, South Africa, on the British steamerMonk-seat-on, which reached this port today. On the night of April 24 Davis disappeared. He is supposed to have fallen overboard. THAT CONFSiRitlNCE. iPITTSBURG, May 26. Senator Quay will say nothing of the result of his visit with McKinley, but it is reported that the outcome is that Quay will bo National chairman. Morton vice- president, and Piatt will control the 1 Pol;t!cs of New York state, ' . HR OVER -.FIFTY YEARS iMVs. Wins!ow's Soothing Syrnp has i been used for children teething.- It 1 soothes the child, softens the gums.